Evo says stupid things every day, but the local media here (which is under
his thumb) protects him in their ‘lack of reporting’ or twisting it for
disinformation purposes. Unfortunately for him, he was addressing an
international audience so he could not be protected by his lackey media
drones from the international press. For the first time, the world got to
see firsthand what a buffoon this 4th grade educated, narco-trafficking,
murderous thug is. He is NOT the messiah and genius that everyone touts
him to be. His rhetoric is anti-US and anti-Capitalism, so he is the
darling to the ultra-left and self-hating US citizens (Danny Glover, Sean
Penn, Oliver Stone, etc.) He is destroying Bolivia like Chavez is
destroying Venezuela. However, there are now chinks in his armor. His
recent hypocrisy was to dispatch his Minister of Finance last week to the
US to engage those ‘evil capitalists’ there to invest in Bolivia. And,
this was only a few days after he lashed out (ala MO of Fidel Castro) on
the evils of capitalism and how the US was responsible for everything bad
in the world. Over the weekend, Evo announced his government is engaging
Vietnam and North Korea to establish formal diplomatic relations with
them, open embassies and exchange ambassadors in an attempt to strengthen
socialist governments to destroy the US and capitalism. He speaks of
Robert Mugabe as a ‘dear freedom fighter’ who is doing great things for
Zimbabwe. If George W. Bush made a stupid statement like his
genetically modified chicken (and drinking Coca Cola, consuming Alka
Shelzer, both were made in his diatribes but omitted by the media), the
MSM (CNN, MSBNC, et all) would beat this Bush statement to death. You
hear nothing from them when idiots like Chavez and Evo speak. This media
bias is the double standard the left-leaning MSM media is guilty of. If
they were doing their job, instead of being coconspirators in their
liberal politics, FoxNews would not be needed to balance out objectivity.
Finally, the nomination of Evo for the Nobel Peace Prize was just formally
accepted yesterday as a result for his “Mother Earth” Summit [aka,
vehement anti-US, anti-Capitalism (specifically targeting Coca Cola),
anti-UN, pro-coca (sic cocaine) and narco-trafficking platform that was
embraced by 22,000 anti-US, left-wing anarchists in attendance] as a
result of the recent Climate Change Summit in Cochabamba.

This demonstrates a relatively high level of agitation among the
Peruvians. My main military contact in Chile has been downplaying this
issue strongly, saying it doesn’t matter, tha tensions between Peru and
Chile are no big deal and that the Peruvians are exaggerating all of it.

He said well we talked a lot about the Peruvian officer, Chile spy case.
I asked what they thought/opinionated about that and his immediate
response was `well we have to by more arms.’ From there I asked him to
elaborate on that and explain how he arrived at this conclusion. And as a
result the following comments were made:

– First I asked how serious and credible this was. Was Peru 100% sure
that this guy was spying and be paid by Chile. He said that they were
more than 100% sure. He said that in Venezuela and Bolivia and sometimes
even in Argentina you’ll hear about all sorts of scandals or rumors or
exaggerated stories that should be taken with a grain of salt. He said,
however, that when it comes to Chile and Peru these things were taken
very seriously and as credible problems/threats.

– Peru is taking this scandal as a very big offense that, to an extent, is
being treated a bit like `the straw that broke the camel’s back’ in terms
of Chile-Peru tensions. He said that Alan
and the Frgn Min coming back shows just how serious the govt is taking
this issue and that they felt relations with Chile were put at a huge
risk. He said that while they haven’t officially broken off diplomatic
relations with Chile or recalled ambassadors, but that could be a
potential next step.

– He said this was shameful for Chile to finance such a spy project. He
said more importantly that Peru (at least the military) was absolutely
embarrassed and feels like they have
really been made the fool. He literally said at one point in the
conversation `somos los payasos.’

– At this point the recent diplomatic efforts by Peru to promote its pact
of non-aggression came up in the conversation. Again he said that Peru
looks foolish now for doing that and that they should not have believed
Chile saying `yeah not a bad idea.’ For him and the people in this
conversation and many in the military that diplomatic approach was over.
The idea of using diplomacy and believing in a possible agreement to
limit/control arms purchases is dead. Peru can’t afford to pursue that
any more and needs to make more assertive moves if it wants to be taken
seriously by Chile and not get so easily walked upon.

– He reiterated that Chile’s arms purchases were just way too much and
could not be justified by any means and for Peru it was clearly an
aggressive move that now can be interpreted no other way.

– He also said that the potential deal between Chile and the US was
particularly alarming. For them it signifies that the US has chosen to
side with Chile in any future Chile-Peru conflicts. They feel that Peru
can now not go to the US to buy weapons since its basically looks certain
that the US will be supplying Chile with arms.

– I asked if he knew how the Chile-US arms deal came about. If the US
started it or Chile. He said he didn’t know but that it didn’t matter
because a deal like that requires two very willing parties.

– They were also just very surprised in general that the US would side or
support Chile. According to him, the US has some DEA, anti-drug projects
in Peru and at least in this area, the military has always considered the
US a reliable and good partner. Betrayal is way to strong a word, but
perhaps snubbed or surprised describes some of their reactions/feelings to
the US possibly selling arms to Chile.

– Then came talk about what Peru would do. He said that Peru had to buy
weapons. I said they should only buy from the best and with the US not
being seen as an option, who was left. He said Israel and Russia were the
big, good, reliable arms suppliers out there for Peru to deal with. I
asked a bit of why for Israel since I
thought Israel purchased a lot of US arms. He said that Israel produces
some arms and that it has very good defense capability, both in equipment
and with the personnel. He also said that Peru has the money to make
large arms purchases should it so choose.

– I asked if the General or people were worried about things. He said the
general was not `preocupado’ but that he was certainly `consternado’.
They are all expecting a very tense week ahead and are waiting to see what
Garcia, the cabinet and governments do in the coming days.

The Zs are busy there – don’t know the exact character of their ops but
the military in ES just stopped some corrupt non-coms stealing 800 hand
grenades and 40mm rounds. The crooks told DEA the grenades were destined
for Zetas in Guat and they have supplied as many as 1000 grenades (total –
hand grenades and 40mm) to the Zs in three previous transactions since
2009. They were getting $40 per grenade split between 3 crooks.

On another ES/Guat note, two Guatemalan Kaibiles were arrested here two
weeks ago carrying a kilo of heroin. The government of El Salvador was
trying to send these two worthies to the US based on an INTERPOL red
notice but were stopped by a low level judge who declared the red notice
“unconstitutional”.

The PNC here rearrested the two mutts but were stymied again and the last
word is they will be returned to Guatemala in a diplomatic vehicle. The
whole point of the story is these two creeps are known to have worked at
Kaibil camp training Zetas, per the DEA country attache here.

Neither story has gotten very much press but both positively indicate
Guatemala/El Salvador/Zeta connection.

There is another link that just came up yesterday but I cannot share it
here –

I’ll ask who the current boss is in G

FYI see the email below relating to our official response to the new state
of siege in Peten.

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NAS: At the request of the Minister of Defense (MOD), NAS is sending 4
helos, 5 mechanics, and 9 pilots to Peten; the pilots and crew will stay
on-base to ensure their security. (One pilot will serve as a liaison, to
get quick mission authorization from NAS, since NAS needs to ensure that
the missions meet USG security standards.) The MOD will work with the NAS
pilots to develop operational flight plans. By Thursday, NAS should have
1 additional helo available for missions.

Four years ago, NAS was going to support the creation of a Model Police
Precinct in Peten. GoG eliminated the Vice Minister for Peten position,
and the plan didn’t go forward, but there are still 14 PNC-vetted officers
and 2 investigators there. NAS is in touch with them and could arrange
for some more vetted officers to go there to support them, including
additional investigators and a community-relations officer to receive
calls from the public with tips.

While NAS is able to help some with transportation, if Pres. Colom wants
to implement a State of Siege, the PNC and military will need to think
about the resources they have available, including PNC vehicles that have
not yet been properly registered. They also need to plan on gathering
appropriate intelligence before acting, in order to make any PNC/military
operations more effective. It would be unfortunate if the Peten “State
of Siege” resulted in arrests that were later thrown out of court for a
lack of evidence, as happened in Coban. The Attorney General is sending
an additional 10 prosecutors to Peten in the NAS helos. The helos also
will carry NAS pilots, mechanics, equipment and Col. Orona.

DAO/MilGroup: No request from the MOD yet. Col. Orona can draw on an
$18,000 SOuthCom credit card for equipment needed to deal with emergency
situations. The State of Siege would count as such an emergency
situation.

SouthCom and Dr. Flores also can help with a public information campaign.

U.S. military special forces advisors (ODA team) and/or Navy SEALS cannot
advise/assist the GOG while they are in an operation. They can only train
or at most help in the planning stage.

NGA can provide unclassified imagery. DAO/MilGroup also can obtain other
imagery from NGA and may be able to provide it to the GOG.

DEA has not been asked for specific support yet, aside from their usual
daily liaison. The MP has been consulting with DEA on the plans for the
additional prosecutors in Peten.

FBI can offer general forensic support (i.e., fingerprints of arrested
subjects or for corpse identification), and will canvas area sources for
information and report.

ATF will provide forensic support related to firearms and/or explosive
materials recovered by the GOG.